amdgpu_fence_free(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ amdgpu_fence_free(9) — a lil' page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

Okay so real talk, this is one of those tiny-but-iconic functions and honestly? She ate. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

amdgpu_fence_free — frees up the fence memory. That's it, that's the whole job. Lowkey a legend for it 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void amdgpu_fence_free (struct rcu_head *rcu );

Return type is void, meaning she gives you nothing back, and she's not sorry about it. Main character energy fr 💜

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • rcu — the RCU callback head. Yes, that's the RCU head. She's the whole reason we're here ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically: this frees up the fence memory after the RCU grace period has passed. Not before, not during — after, bestie. Timing is everything, iykyk 🧚

Periodt. The grace period has to happen first, no skipping the line 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The source of truth lives right here in the kernel files:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c

And a whole little squad of fence friends, all of them iconic, all of them linked:

⭐ And that's the whole page, bestie! Signing off from ./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu, dated October 2026 — stay slay, keep your grace periods respected, and may your fences always free on time 💅🔥👑

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